Science & Society

Violent rampages: what we can do to prevent them

Extreme violence resulting in multiple deaths occurs with mounting frequency around the world. March 11, 2009, a teen in Germany slaughtered 15 people, UK News reports. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090312/twl-teen-warned-of-german-school-shootin-3fd0ae9_3. ...

Blog Post - Diana Deregnier - Mar 17 2009 - 1:20pm

Obese Women Play Cancer Roulette

Obese women may be putting themselves at greater risk of breast cancer by not undergoing regular screening. According to new research by Dr. Nisa Maruthur and her team from The John Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, USA, seriously obese ...

Article - News Releases - Dec 20 2012 - 9:45pm

Health Media Improving But Still Not Very Good, Says Analysis

New research on the reporting of medical treatments in the Australian media showed slight improvements in accuracy but the overall quality of health reporting remained poor, says a study of more than 1,200 health news stories published by Australian media ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2009 - 8:50am

Evolution Of Running And Our Optimal Pace

There has been a perception that running has the same metabolic cost per unit of time no matter the speed — in other words, that the energy needed to run a given distance is the same whether sprinting or jogging.   Not so, says Karen Steudel, a zoology pro ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2009 - 1:11pm

Can Music Therapy Affect Your Health?

It seems that music has extraordinary magical powers. Famed for being able to tame wild beasts, set a romantic mood, keep you exercising for longer and make babies smarter, music has taken a multifaceted and complex role in our society.   Our search for th ...

Article - Erin Richards - Mar 20 2009 - 11:15pm

Is "Understanding Science" a Joke?

John Hawks is not happy with it. I clicked on this John Timmer story about the new website, “Understanding Science”, directed toward the public and K-12 educators. What I found staring at me was a giant picture of a 27-step flowchart.I’m not going to repr ...

Blog Post - Nicholas Horton - Mar 20 2009 - 1:14pm

How to be a genius

This older talk by computer science pioneer Richard Hamming is awesome: One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then you can. If you think you can& ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Mar 20 2009 - 5:12pm

Barry Kibrick goes 'Between the Lines' with Jack Hokikian on economics

Barry Kibrick, producer and host of the PBS program "Between the Lines" has given me permission to share his weekly newsletter which alerts readers of current and archived programs and delivers a warm salutation. Kibrick interviews authors with u ...

Blog Post - Diana Deregnier - Mar 20 2009 - 11:55pm

Could It Be? A Truce In The Science Versus Postmodernism Culture War

Sometimes you open Nature magazine and are surprised by the latest discovery in quantum mechanics or molecular biology. Browsing through the March 5, 2009 issue I was stunned by an article penned by sociologist Harry Collins, entitled “We cannot live by s ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Mar 22 2009 - 11:58am

Obama Is A Neo-Con Too, Says Historian (Who Just Happens To Hate Israel)

If you listen to pubic radio, you can find programs that say mass media is right wing.  Yes, right wing, because it takes a corporation to make mass media for the masses.    So therefore  having 90% of journalists being left wing is just a clever ruse.    ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 22 2009 - 11:50am